ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,819, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ROEN Surgical Inc. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Basket device for endoscope" was invented by Byung Sik Cheon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dong Soo Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basket device for an endoscope includes a base tube attached to an end of an endoscope tube and including at least one channel through which an endoscopic camera or a surgical instrument passes, a plurality of baskets provided at locations separate from each other in a radial direction along an edge of an end of the base tube and formed to protrude in a direction in which each of the baskets is t...